Gathered after Butler’s death by his friend R. A. Streatfeild, these essays range from ‘Ramblings in Cheapside’ and ‘How to Make the Best of Life’ to Italian sanctuaries, a medieval girls’ school, the art of the Saas valley and Butler’s quarrels with Darwinian orthodoxy over memory and heredity.
Witty, contrary, endlessly curious writing from the author of Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. Download the free EPUB.